The FBI wants backdoors, but so that they are not called backdoors
FBI Director James Komi, in his report to the US Senate Law Committee, told senators that he personally communicated with technology company executives, convincing them that the bureau needed access to encrypted electronic correspondence in order to counter terrorism. According to Komi, all his interlocutors agreed with him. Thus, the FBI continues to insist on the need to have backdoors in the software used for communication on the Internet, but they simply should not be called by this word “backdoors”.
The director of Komi says that he is proposing a new model for the interaction of special services with technology companies. The FBI is absolutely not interested in exactly how agents will be given access to the required data, because the key here is the freedom of the company. We need a different kind of mechanic: the FBI provides a court decision, and already technical specialists will decide exactly how to organize it. Thus, it is not a question of technology, but a question of changing the business model, so there is no need to call such “backdoors”.
In addition, the interlocutors of James Komi explained their reluctance to work with the FBI by the fact that this could end up harming online security and even just surfing the Internet. Interestingly, a year ago, as Komi noted, many FBI devices could still have access, but the situation changed in just a year and it was necessary to persuade not only manufacturers, but also US senators.
Attempts by the FBI in one way or another to organize access to e-mails received a response at the very top: in May of this year, America’s largest technology companies sent an open letter to President Barack Obama, in which they directly asked his permission not to build backdoors into their software. At the end of November, another infamous agency, well known for its straightforward attitude to the privacy of US citizens, the NSA announced that it was curtailing the program of a mass wiretap, launched since 2001.
The director of Komi says that he is proposing a new model for the interaction of special services with technology companies. The FBI is absolutely not interested in exactly how agents will be given access to the required data, because the key here is the freedom of the company. We need a different kind of mechanic: the FBI provides a court decision, and already technical specialists will decide exactly how to organize it. Thus, it is not a question of technology, but a question of changing the business model, so there is no need to call such “backdoors”.
In addition, the interlocutors of James Komi explained their reluctance to work with the FBI by the fact that this could end up harming online security and even just surfing the Internet. Interestingly, a year ago, as Komi noted, many FBI devices could still have access, but the situation changed in just a year and it was necessary to persuade not only manufacturers, but also US senators.
Attempts by the FBI in one way or another to organize access to e-mails received a response at the very top: in May of this year, America’s largest technology companies sent an open letter to President Barack Obama, in which they directly asked his permission not to build backdoors into their software. At the end of November, another infamous agency, well known for its straightforward attitude to the privacy of US citizens, the NSA announced that it was curtailing the program of a mass wiretap, launched since 2001.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/356952/
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